Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University (Istanbul-Turkey); President, the International Relations Council (UIK) of Turkey; Coordinator of Global Academy; Fellow, European Academy of Art and Sciences; Co-Coordinator, Greek-Turkish Forum; Member, European Leadership Network.He was the Rector/President of Kadir Has University (2010-2018); Director of International Policy Research Institute (2005-2011); Head of the International Relations Dept. at University of Economics and Technology (2005-2010); Co-Coordinator of the International Commission on Black Sea (2010); Member of Economy and Foreign Policy Study Group of the President’s Office (Turkey, 2003-2009); Deputy Chairperson of International Commission of Eminent Persons on the Caucasus and Caspian (2007); Board Member of Strategic Research Center of Turkish Armed Forces (2002-2011); Alexander S. Onassis Fellow at the University of Athens (2003); Research Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris (2003); Fulbright Scholar at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University (2002); and UNESCO Fellow at the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies, UK (1999).His work includes Central Asia in Global Politics (in Turkish, 2004); Europe’s Next Shore; Black Sea After the Enlargement (2004); Turkish Foreign Policy; Framework and Analysis (2005); International Security Today; Understanding Change and Debating Security (ed. with K. Ifantis, 2006); Turkish Foreign and Security Policy (ed. 2006); Regional In/security: Redefining Threats and Responses (ed., 2007); Turkey’s Eurasian Adventure (in Turkish, 2008); Turkish Foreign Policy; Old Problems, New Parameters (2010); and Non-Traditional Security Threats and Regional Cooperation in the Southern Caucasus (2011).Specialties:Turkish Foreign and Security PoliciesEurasian Geopolitics and SecurityBlack Sea and the CaucasusGlobal Energy SecurityInternational politicsHigher Education in Turkey